Intimate portraits of a hospital COVID unit from a photojournalist-turned-nurse

A team of nurses, patient care technicians and a respiratory therapist prepare to return a COVID patient to their back after 24 hours of lying on their stomach. That posture makes it easier to breathe and is a critical part of treatment for COVID patients in hospitals.

Alan Hawes hopes his photos of health care workers and COVID patients will show the toll of this pandemic — and convince the unvaccinated to get their COVID shots.

(Image credit: Alan Hawes/Medical University of South Carolina)

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Victoria Hansen